Sunday, May 28, 2006

welcome to our newest visitors

We recently sent out the quilt square letter to dozens of our closest friends and family, some by email, some by snail mail.

So a HUGE welcome to them! If this is your first time, here are some things of interest:

ARCHIVES
to find our old posts, just look on the left and scroll down, pick a month and check out our posts by clicking on the month of interest. This blog goes back to January when we started 'paperchasing'.

BACKGROUND
In an nutshell, this link takes you to where we are on the adoption journey.

http://thebryantbunch.blogspot.com/2006/05/whats-new-on-adoption-front.html

The archives from Jan and Feb contain a lot of what it's like to plead for government clearance for a foreign adoption...ok, we didn't have to plead, but the paperwork is astounding.

MISC POSTS OF INTEREST
Thoughts about last fall

a few vocabulary terms

LINKS OF INTEREST
On the left you'll notice a section called "Magpie's Other Confucius Sites". They are also about this journey but segregated to make it easier to keep file size limitations (pictures) in compliance.

"Magpie's One Hundred Good Wishes Quilt" for the latest on the quilt.

"Magpie's Nursery" for the latest on the nursery (not much...)

"Friday Facts" for a website on lots of cool stuff we've learned about China, the culture, festivals, special notes of interest, etc.

"FAQs" for answers to the basics, Why Adoption, Why China, etc.

Some links are updated often, some not! The main blog is updated several times/week, it's a mixed bag. A celebration of our life as it currently is, all the ups and downs of the adoption journey, what we've experienced and generally what's up in our lives. It's our diary, as much as it can be in the public domain.

Enjoy, don't be shy of writing in comments on a particular post or two, we love reading them and they will be included when the blog is printed and bound for Magpie (nickname as we haven't selected a name yet).

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